You Say Poor, I Say Rich

You Say Poor, I Say Rich

Philip Klein
pivots off
of the quote Ron Kind gave me in Wisconsin, when the congressman bemoaned that a "poor guy" like Russ Feingold might be booted out of the Senate.

Kind has an odd definition of "poor." As a Senator, RussFeingold
earns
$174,000 a year -- which easily puts him in the top 5percent of income earners
according to
IRS data.

But what makes Kind's remark odder still is his definition of"wealthy."

At a recent debate, Kind
defended
his support for raising taxes... so, under Kind's set of definitions, Feingold -- as anindividual earning $174,000 -- is a "poor person." Yet a
household
earning $250,000 is wealthy.